The Benefits of MyRotary
Did you know that as of October 1, 2015 only 13 of our club’s 43 members have
logged into MyRotary on the Rotary International website. That represents a
percentage of .3023. Now if you were a baseball player, a batting average of .302
would be close to making you a super star. However, as an indicator of how many of
our club members have used this very useful tool, the number tells kind of a sad story.
So what would seem to be the problem? I suspect the members that have not used
MyRotary either do not know how to use the site, or they don’t care to use the site. In
other words they see no benefit to MyRotary.
Located on the Rotary International website is a short 3 part video course entitled
Learn Rotary – The New Rotary.org. You can find this material at
http://learn.rotary.org/pages/course/CourseMaterial.aspx?courseid=106
The third video in this course is entitled “My Rotary Video Tour.” The video, which
runs about 11 minutes, does a very nice job of explaining MyRotary, how the site
works, the information that can be found on the site, and most importantly, how to log
into MyRotary if you have never done so. You can even go back and watch how to
log in more than once if the pace of the video is too fast for you! It would behoove all of
our members to watch this video and then establish an account at MyRotary. Am I
dreaming? Perhaps – but even if we could raise our usage from 30% to 60% we as a
club would be money ahead. And who knows, we might even collectively become
more knowledgeable about Rotary.
Once you have established an account at MyRotary you’ll be able to create your own
personal profile. You’ll find a quick club snapshot and you will be able to access
Rotary Club Central and view your club’s goals. Look these goals over. You might
learn something you didn’t know about your club, as you will see information on
membership trends, gender trends, and age trends. You’ll see information about
goals, engagement, communication, and public relations. You will be able to view
your giving history, and finally, if you so choose, you’ll be able to make donations to
The Rotary Foundation.
BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE! You will also find featured links that will provide useful
and interesting information. On the top menu bar you’ll see where you can exchange
ideas, take action, find learning and reference material, find management tools for club
administration, find information about TRF, find RI news and information, and access
various online tools. Do you know what TRF is? I hope so, but if not it is The Rotary
Foundation.
So what is stopping you? Click on the link above (or type it into your browser) and get
started on MyRotary. Let’s see if by the end of this month we can have registered
MyRotary users at 60%. If you need help in this I’ll be happy to provide same. And by
the way, are you/we taking the over or under on the 60% number?
